By Elisabeth Tharp | Broadcast Reporter
Flower Mound sophomore Lauren Cox is one of the Baylor women’s basketball team’s most valuable players. This season, she secured her second individual award from the Big 12 conference, after receiving the Big 12 Sixth Man Award as a freshman and Defensive Player of the Year honor this season.
What many people might not know about Cox, however, is that she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in second grade, when she was just seven years old.
“I was really young, so I didn’t know what was going on, but I’ve learned a lot about it.